Is it time to upgrade my RAM?

[mcguire6799]

My current RAM is 2 years old it is OCZ reaper...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227574

Is it time to upgrade, it is only 4gigs, and if I am going to add RAM, I would add exactly what I have, which is not made anymore I believe so hard to do that. Anyone have recommendations? I am looking for 8-12gigs, cheap but good quality still.

 

[johnb35]

First of all, what do you do with your system that you think you need more ram? If just email, websurfing, facebook kind of stuff then no, you don't need anymore. If gaming, it all depends on the game.

 

[mcguire6799]

I mainly play world of Warcraft. But I occasionally run 2 at the same time for my two accounts. And also to boost overall performance.

 

[johnb35]

When you run 2 games at once, check your memory usage to see how much is being used and if its close to 4gb then you can upgrade to more memory. But if your memory usage is only around 3gb then you won't see any performance increase to go to 8gb of memory.